Chapter 61

• [Carnelia]
• I have felt sick with nerves all evening. The elegant food and drink of the evening threatens to make a reappearance. I have never felt so sick with worry. Even with Primus at my side, smiling at me like he is the luckiest drake in the universe, there is something at the edge of my mind that is making me think of darker things, things that haunt me, fears that may or may not come. I don't know what it is that I have to be afraid of, at least not more than I had the day before. The only thing different from today and yesterday is that now I am his wife. Our life together has always been a bit dangerous even before he put a crown on my head.
• A crown. He crowned me. He made me his princess. Is that my worry? Why did he do that when he knew that he was risking so much by marrying me? What will they do to us both knowing that this gift of his sits upon my brow?